{"id":3907,"date":"2015-02-23T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2015-03-01T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:45:52","slug":"a-sauna-in-every-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-sauna-in-every-house\/","title":{"rendered":"A sauna in every house"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3908\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/5334805561_857b33393a_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3908\" class=\"wp-image-3908\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/5334805561_857b33393a_z.jpg\" alt=\"A sauna is an enclosed room used for a steam bath. (Image courtesy of  Hotel Der Oeschberghof, flickr.com\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/5334805561_857b33393a_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/5334805561_857b33393a_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sauna is an enclosed room used for a steam bath. (Image courtesy of <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oeschberghof\/5334805561\"> Hotel Der Oeschberghof, flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Men who routinely take saunas are at less risk of dying from sudden cardiac death and other fatal cardiovascular diseases a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers followed a group of 2,315 middle-aged men (42 to 60 years old) in Finland and found that men who used the sauna two\u00a0to three\u00a0times per week had a 24 per cent lower risk of dying than people not going to the sauna.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers believed that sauna bathing could have positive effects on cardiovascular health similar to physical exercise because the high-temperature (79\u00b0C) increased the heart rate of bathers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2130724\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>JAMA Internal Medicine\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>February 23<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Tanjaniina\u00a0Laukkanen,\u00a0University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men who routinely take saunas are at less risk of dying from sudden cardiac death and other fatal cardiovascular diseases a new study shows. Researchers followed a group of 2,315 middle-aged men (42 to 60 years old) in Finland and found that men who used the sauna two\u00a0to three\u00a0times per week had a 24 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1989,51,476],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cardiovascular-health","tag-health","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/5334805561_857b33393a_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-111","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}